This is a continuation of a blog that was part of the University of Alaska walking program. Now it includes other activities in addition to exercise such as motorcycle rides on my '83 BMW R100RT/Cozy and 2012 Ural Patrol Sidecar rigs.

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Monday, January 27, 2014

Morning Sky

We've had some wonderfully nice days since our last warm spell w/rain. The roads are a little icy but traction is decent and everyone seems to be behaving themselves. This photo was taken yesterday morning about half an hour before sunrise. Of course, I had to get the rig into the photo somehow but the highlight was definitely the sky.

Today, the waning crescent moon looked pretty cool on the southern horizon while riding in. Since I didn't have a tripod, it took quite a few attempts to get an acceptable shot especially low light, handheld with a modest telephoto. I really like these southerly views with showing the profile of the Alaska Range. And we have great visibility today. Venus was a bit further to the east out of the frame.

Not sure whether you are using a REAL camera, or an iPhone. Many models now have "anti-shake" mode which fires off a sequence of photos and then blends the sharpest parts of each photo and makes ONE of out them all, using bits of each. It is precisely for times when you don't have a tripod handy.

anyway, love the colours. We had some nice reds this morning but nowhere to pull over, and I didn't have a Hack to pose. I thought you had HDR in your phone ?

The first is an iPhone picture taken in HDR mode. The second is DSLR with anti-vibration turned on, ISO 400 and the 55-200mm at 68mm or ~102mm equivalent. This is an older Nikon and the you get a lot of digital noise at ISO 800 or above.

Maybe. I even have a few of them laying around. I just don't think of it in the morning. I picked up a monopod last year that I took with me on our trip last June which would be ideal for times like this.